A handful of the best is one of the presentations I ran at uLearn09. The basis of this presentation is a collection of open source, free or great proprietory tools that I use in my classroom.
While the “software for schools” deal does provide a basic productivity suite for computers in schools and an OS it [...]
While I was in the States, I had the opportunity to visit Memphis Zoo. The Zoo was a little disappointing as I found many of the enclosures, particularly for the large carnivores to be limited and restrictive. However some of the newer spaces were very good.
I don’t want to enter into a debate about the [...]
Well, we are back in Memphis, we went out to the Rum Boogie Blues club last night, which was great.
This trip has been thought provoking and has challenged many preconceptions I had.
Yes, I did meet a couple (and only a couple) of “red neck” teachers, but the majority of the teachers I met were profoundly [...]
Its day 3…. The middle of the third innings and they are hitting home runs off a tough pitcher…
This is fun. The project is focusing on getting the teachers to have the students construct their learning. It is project based learning with a twist that is innovative and exciting – the problem that form the [...]
This is the latest in the series of starter sheets. This start sheet looks at the Word cloud generator called wordle – http://www.wordle.net
The starter sheet is available from: http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Starter+Sheets
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Today was the first day of the 4 day process that we are working on with this school district.
The Morning saw Lee present a pair of stunning presentations on Understanding Digital Kids and Living on the Future Edge. Both of these were brilliant. The content was exciting and dynamic. The afternoon was mine.
My focus was [...]
Well I have arrived in Arkansas. And its flat, I am missing hills. Its a pretty state farm lands indespersed with patchs of woodlands.
The process of getting here has been quite long, but I had yesterday (saturday) to recuperate in Memphis. We went out last night to BB Kings house of Blues and had 4 [...]
Well I have made it to the airport and I am enjoying the hospitality of the Air NZ Lounge. I have to say the best advertisement for becoming a Koru Club member is being let into the lounge.
I am sitting here prep’ing for what promises to be a busy and very interesting week. Other than [...]
Today, we had the pleasure of hosting the ACCE study tour group as they made their way around the world to the NECC conference in Washington DC, USA.
It is a pleasure to have groups like this visit, it presents us, the visitors and hosts, with the opportunity to examine your practices, procedures and facilities. To [...]
A few years ago, I attended a conference in South Africa. In a pre conference tour I visited Robben Island, the notorious prison that housed Political prisoners during the bleak days of aparitied
The prison is a tourist attraction and a monument to the conflict and struggle. I have uploaded to flickr some of my images [...]
